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Hi Mark. Great post, one person I can identify is the storyboard artist - Alex Lovy - had a career at Lantz - I think he's credited with designing the first Woody Woodpecker model and longtime at H and B.

Wow, memories - thanks for this, although it predates my first job by about 4 years

Couple of points:

When Joe's talking L/O, all the shots are of storyboarding - probably used because the panel size is more interesting (in context) than 12 fld

"girls" - when I got in, I&P was "The Girls" everywhere, even when (as several did) there were men in the group - one should also note that H-B had female BG artists

please: I am not defending the sexism that was rampant, just adding some facts - and one should remember that Joe and Bill were on their second careers, with attitudes/vocabularies based on the studio structures of the 30's

And, I think that’s Frank Paiker operating the camera. Could that be a very young Kenny Spears cutting sound? The timeline would be about right. Finally, Bill Hanna seems like a kindly old uncle explaining the process to the young woman. Boy, if she only knew how tough Bill really was.

Still, it was a delightful time, and cartoon making was really a lot of fun.

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